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I want to create mockups of new features for an existing site. I'm looking for a simple, free, tool to help em do that. I'm not a gui designer, so I'm not looking for something that keeps the same look and feel, or that is pixel perfect, it can be just a wireframe. Better if it allows the mockups to be click-through (and any other interactive features)
I use Pencil for making mockups. It's free, open source, and cross-platform, and has a good variety of mockup widgets available. It looks like there are some web widgets available (assuming "existing site" refers to a website), there are plenty of desktop widgets, and there are basic rectangles, arrows, polygons, etc. for simple wireframes too. You won't find much in the way of interactivity, but that hasn't been a huge issue for me so far.
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Is there any UML tool that enables nodes styling? For example, setting not only the background colour for the "Class" node but also paddings, custom text alignment, different font settings of class name and attributes etc.
I like the functionality of yEd designer, but when I need to share a part of my model as a picture, it looks really poor.
Re-making the same diagram in a pure graphic editor is an overkill.
You should have a look at Papyrus. Not only do you have a log of control from within the tool, you can also use CSS externally to affect the rendition of the diagrams.
If you want some pretty automatic (not hand drawn) diagrams, then MS Visio is your choice. They even support 3D objects modelled by you. But don't forget that Visio is not a fully strict modelling tool. It is pretty, but checks only some ties and rules. (It is not at all always bad, though)
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With regard to Event Sourcing and Domain Driven Design, I'm looking for a good software solution to help my team model our Aggregates electronically during an Event Storming session.
I have considered simple sticky note applications but they leave a lot to be desired such as the ability to save and share.
So what would you recommend as a good Event Storming software?
I think you only get opinionated answers. Tools that you really need to consider:
Paper roll, preferably plotter roll since it is dense enough and wide enough. For more vertical space put two strips, one below the other. Take a photo when you are done, share it with others. It is OK to scrap the roll since for the next session it would be beneficial to re-create the picture again and it will be better (see WET - write everything twice)
Online tools that have sticky notes of different colours and sizes. These should only be used if you have a distributed online session. I know two online tools that allow real-time collaboration, we use one and tried another, which is also very good. You choose yourself. I do not work for any of those.
Miro
Conceptboard
Mural
How about a "whiteboard"? I found it actually quite easier to create a very large image with a very dark gray background and simply use Paint to draw on top of it. Other devs were able to add their ideas to it and Save As... so that the original file was not overwritten.
Does it make sense?
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I've noticed that the wiki transcriptions for some of the recent Stack Overflow Podcasts are kind of weak. Clearly, this task calls for a computer program. Is transcribing audio to text (ideally with speaker labels so we know who said what) something that could feasibly be accomplished in software? Are there any active open-source software projects attempting to implement such functionality?
Believe me, I have searched for this before. There are slim to none text to speech that are open source or free to use. From my search there weren't any free speech to text synthesizers. These things are so hard to code and expensive that they can't really be made with an open source approach. If you really need this you would have to purchase it from a company. (although I don't know any off the top of my head).
I've looked into this a little. I tried the Microsoft Speech API but got very poor results. I've been wanting to look into the CMU Sphinx project, especially the Transcriber demo.
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When making software, specially games, those resources like graphics and sounds are something "freaky" that's out of range of the developers brain and feasibility. I mean...sound effects like cool beeps: Who in the world can make them? Almost nobody of us, I guess ;)
So: Is there any good legal ressource for this kind of content, which allow to use them in Apps? How do all those developers make those cool and nice apps with nice music, nice sound and nice graphic without getting sued right away? Where do they get their high-quality contents?
Where can I get freely available audio, graphics, and other resources for games?
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I once bought a single license of Microangelo for creating icons which served me well in the past, but now I'm helping run up a new Virtual Machine base for our dev team to use and would like to include a decent free icon editor in there.
I'd prefer something that fully supports creating icons for Windows Vista.
For all those of you thinking "Don't let a developer design graphics!" just pretend I said "for our UI Design Team" instead of "Dev Team", lol. ;)
That's simple, because it's free, powerfull and supports Vista Icons (256x256): IcoFx
On this site you can find a tool for (animated) cursors, too: AniFx
If you want to pay, I'd suggest a more powerful ones: Axialis Iconworkshop
I would use Inkscape to design the icons, and then render them scaled down and convert them to the final format with Gimp
The benefit of this is you can design the icon once, and produce it in many target sizes effortlessly.
That's what the OpenSource world are doing these days :) ( We even have Native SVG Icons now )
I would recommend Paint.NET, or The GIMP. They're not specifically for icons, but will do the job and much more. Also, both free.
EDIT: Paint.NET requires plugin (free).
For icons, there's IcoFX.